246410 - No notification if find in page fails (Toolbar Search field)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Alex Eng]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

Firefox does not display any sort of notification (message box or status bar
message) if a search for text in the current Web page from the Toolbar Search
field is unsuccessful.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure that the Toolbar Search field is in "Find in this page" mode.
2. Enter some text that does not exist in the currently-displayed Web page, and
press ENTER.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should inform the user that the entered search term(s) was not found. 
This could be accomplished by using the same message box that displays when a
search fails when using Edit > Find in this Page, or a message should display in
the status bar (the latter option having the advantage of being less intrusive).

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

Still in 0.9 but it only appears when searching from the toolbar field (ctl+f
dialog is ok). Modifying summary.

Comment 2

[Alex Eng]

With the introduction of the new Find Toolbar as of the 2004-07-07 nightly
build, this bug is no longer applicable.  The "Find in this page" capability in
the Web Search field is gone; it now searches the Web only.

However, the same problem seems to occur with the new Find Toolbar.  The old
status bar message,

   Text Not Found: "foo bar"

doesn't appear when a search is unsuccessful, unlike before with the original
Find As You Type feature.  I will file a new bug for that, if it has not already
been reported.